[Tournaments-HotA/SoD] Mirrors - 3

four pumped-up mages with Teleport and offensive magic

These are the ones that are level 4-5 with Wisdom, and only have basic Earth magic? Oh, and there's also a mage from the Dungeon with Fire, level 12, but again, no Earth.

p.s. "played evenly at first" - is that when - in the first few steps on map 111??

This is until the day when the Boots of Swiftness were acquired on map 123. He overtook you by about 2000 moves, which is roughly a day of gameplay. The only difference is that you took the upper Dungeon and had more troops, it's a shame you didn't realize all that advantage.
There are no questions about the troops, you had more troops, but 13 Wamp Lords, 12 Cyclops, and 40 Lizards is not equal to a billion troops.